109 episodes
Understand Suicide Paula Fontenelle
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4.7 • 53 Ratings
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Here we will create a safe community to fight the stigma surrounding suicide. I will interview specialists, survivors, and individuals who have a story to tell. We will cover a variety of themes: grief, warning signs, risk factors, contagion, youth, and most importantly, what can be done to prevent suicide.
To contact me, send a message to pfontenelletherapist@gmail.com
Visit my page: www.understandsuicide.com
Facebook Page: https://bit.ly/2MMLBWO
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Ep. 116 - How parents can help kids at risk | Nicole and Caroline
My guests today are Nicole Siegfried and Caroline Nichols. In this interview, they help us figure out how parents and families can help kids who struggle with suicidal thoughts, ideation, and previous attempts.
This interview is the fourth of a week-long series, during which I will be publishing at least one episode every day directly from the 57th conference of the American Association of Suicidology, AAS, in Las Vegas.
Join me daily for interviews with key speakers, researchers, and loss survivors.
Are you looking for a suicide loss support group? Join mine, it's online.
See details here: https://t.ly/YsdKG
Find Nicole and Caroline:https://lightfully.com/
Visit my page www.understandsuicide.com
Enroll in my course "How to help suicidal people"
https://bit.ly/3klNZ7n
Find my book: Understanding suicide: living with Loss, paths to Prevention
https://t.ly/mTxpo
If you need to talk, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org
Phone: 800-273-8255
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Ep. 115 - Why are support groups healing? | Joan Hoff
My guest today is Joan Hoff. She has been facilitating loss groups for over thirty years, including support groups for children, families, and suicide loss survivors. Joan lost her husband to suicide and in this interview, she shares with us her experience with her own grief and why she believes in the healing power of groups.
This interview is the third of a week-long series, during which I will be publishing at least one episode every day directly from the 57th conference of the American Association of Suicidology, AAS, in Las Vegas.
Join me daily for interviews with key speakers, researchers, and loss survivors.
Are you looking for a suicide loss support group? Join mine, it's online: https://t.ly/YsdKG
Visit my page www.understandsuicide.com
Enroll in my course "How to help suicidal people"
https://bit.ly/3klNZ7n
Find my book: Understanding suicide: living with Loss, paths to Prevention
https://t.ly/mTxpo
If you need to talk, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org
Phone: 800-273-8255
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Ep. 114 - When a therapist loses a client to suicide | Khara Croswaite
My guest today is the therapist Khara Croswaite and the topic is "When therapists lose a client to suicide." What does the grief look like? Who do we go to? What helps? What about the shame of sharing with colleagues that you have lost a client in this manner?
Khara knows some of those answers because she recently lost a client to suicide and she has been vulnerable and brave enough to share her story and publish a book about her experience. The book is entitled “Moving from Alert to Acceptance.” (link below).
This interview is the second of a week-long series, during which I will be publishing at least one episode every day directly from the 57th conference of the American Association of Suicidology, AAS, in Las Vegas.
Join me daily for interviews with key speakers, researchers, and loss survivors.
Find her book: https://amzn.to/4byBeiR
Are you looking for a suicide loss support group? Join mine, it's online: https://t.ly/YsdKG
Visit my page www.understandsuicide.com
Enroll in my course "How to help suicidal people"
https://bit.ly/3klNZ7n
Find my book: Understanding suicide: living with loss, paths to prevention
https://t.ly/mTxpo
If you need to talk, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org
Phone: 800-273-8255
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Ep. 113 - Teen bereavement | Joanne Harpel
My guest today is Joanne Harpel, president of Coping after suicide and executive producer of the film “Talking Out Loud: Teen suicide loss, a Conversation.” She lost her brother Stephen to suicide in 1993. Since then, Joanne has been working on prevention and postvention, particularly with support groups.
Our focus today is teen bereavement, a topic very rarely explored even here on my podcast. I watched her film at the convention and learned so much from it that I decided to share it with you, so let’s listen to her journey and how she has transformed lives since her loss.
This interview is the first of a week-long series, during which I will be publishing at least one episode every day directly from the 57th conference of the American Association of Suicidology, AAS.
Join me daily for interviews with key speakers, researchers, and loss survivors.
Watch the film: https://t.ly/uCs1h
Are you looking for a suicide loss support group? Join mine, it's online.
See details here: https://t.ly/YsdKG
Visit my page www.understandsuicide.com
Enroll in my course "How to help suicidal people"
https://bit.ly/3klNZ7n
Find my book: Understanding suicide: living with Loss, paths to Prevention
https://t.ly/mTxpo
If you need to talk, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org
Phone: 800-273-8255
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Announcement: Daily episodes this week
This week, beginning tomorrow (Tuesday), I will be publishing at least one episode every day directly from the 57th conference of the American Association of Suicidology. Join me daily for interviews with key speakers, researchers, and loss survivors.
Are you looking for an online suicide loss support group? Join mine: https://t.ly/gYW-G
Find my book "Understanding Suicide: Living with loss, paths to prevention:”https://amzn.to/3QYe0II
Enroll in my course "How to help suicidal people."https://bit.ly/3klNZ7n
Subscribe to my YouTube channel:https://rb.gy/0emdk
Visit my page www.understandsuicide.com
If you need to talk, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org
Phone: 988
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Ep. 112 - How can a partner help with grief? | Michelle Collins
After a series of losses, including the death of her mother and her husband’s suicide, Michelle Collins combined the tools she had collected as a yoga therapist and wellness coach and studies in positive psychology and neuroscience to turn post-traumatic stress disorder into post-traumatic growth and resilience.
She is the author of two books: “Surviving Spousal or partner suicide loss: A Mindful Guide for Your Journey Through Grief” and “Supporting a Survivor of spouse of partner suicide loss: A Mindful Guide for Co-journeying Through Grief.”
In this interview, we focus on how a partner or spouse can help their loved one through suicide loss.
Find Michelle: https://inhabitjoy.com/
Are you looking for an online suicide loss support group? Join mine: https://t.ly/gYW-G
Find my book "Understanding Suicide: Living with loss, paths to prevention:”
https://amzn.to/3QYe0II
Enroll in my course "How to help suicidal people."
https://bit.ly/3klNZ7n
Subscribe to my YouTube channel:
https://rb.gy/0emdk
Visit my page www.understandsuicide.com
If you need to talk, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org
Phone: 988
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/paula-fontenelle/message
Customer Reviews
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Paula, thank you for sharing this podcast and these stories with the world. The tragedy of losing a loved one is so hard and painful. People need your message. We lost our son, Michael, to the disease of suicide on January 25th, 2021. He was 18, a wonderful young man, and even now this tragedy seems unreal. I am eternally grateful for my faith and the hope brings each day. We must do more to help remove the stigma of suicide and encourage a broader discussion for support of mental health. We love you Michael, your story isn’t over;
Thank you paula
This pod cast has helped me so much after losing my husband by suicide.
I appreciate the time you put into it and your knowledgeable and thoughtful conversations.
Really a blessing.
Paula talks about Paula, Guests cut off,
Paula successfully corrals damaged, vulnerable, intelligent and insightful Guests. But Paula is controlling, maneuvers her Guests around like a horse trainer. Paula frequently finishes her Guest’s sentences. Paula will cut her Guest off mid-sentence to change the subject. Paula frequently puts words in her guest’s mouths. And I really DO NOT LIKE IT when the Guest is describing their life experiences, and suddenly Paula interrupts to substitute Paula’s OWN life experiences! That actually triggers me, and I become ALMOST ANGRY. In fact, I say it’s wrong. Because I’ve already heard everything Paula has to say about Paula on Paula’s show. And anyway, I want to hear what the Guest has to say! Isn’t an episode supposed to be about the guest? What? Not really? The Show Formula is 60% Paula and 40% incomplete Fragments from the Guest? That’s weird. Oh, Wait! The Guest is talking! And Paula isn’t interrupting! Oh, man…wow…that’s really interesting…alarming…I never thought about that…how did you…I can’t… What? BOOM? Guest cut off mid-thought and abruptly dismissed? And They’re gone? Now Paula is talking about Paula again? But I wanted to hear…because they were…can’t you just..? Never mind. Forget it. They’re gone. “What? No Paula! I am not going to buy you another cup of coffee. Why? Because I’m now in an emotional state that’s a combination of devastated sorrow and simmering resentment. And I have had ideation, you know that, right? No! I won’t be a guest. No, I’m not giving you content which becomes your intellectual property. Forget it! No, I’m calling my therapist, and then writing a book instead.” Anyway, for the listener: insightful fragments spoken by Great Guests within a disturbingly controlled Show. To me it’s more about Paula than it is the Guests, whom I wish were allowed Simply Talk Freely.